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rict adherence to a rigid curriculum 
cause of your different approach, you may have problems in maintaining discipline in your class
y hear that students say you are not serious in your teaching. For your students, their edu
cess is seen as vital to their economic advancement and to that of their families. And their defin
ucational success is getting good 

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ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? 
2. Read the story. You will find the text at the end of these instructions. Use any pauses or 
ad in the pages. 
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lion, won the 
fight, and then married the other woman anyway!" Circulate, helping the students express their 
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Before Class 
Prepare the story by reading it quietly to yourself and then going through it several times aloud so
that it will be "alive" when you come to present it to the class. 
In Class 
1. Teach any unknown vocabulary and set the mood for the story: quiet, calm, and comfortable. 
simple dramatic gestures for effect. Make sure you look up from the book. It will be far more
difficult to hold the group's attention if you bury your he
3. As the story is finished, ask the students in groups or pairs to write their own endings to it
Most students seem to want happy or trick endings such as: "The princess bribed the lion
keeper to feed the lion up so that it wasn't hungry," or "The King saw it as a sign from God when
the lion turned away." Others may prefer a more twisted ending: "He fought the 
ideas in writing. 
4. When the groups have finished their versions, read or let a student read: "...acting on the
decision she had made after days and nights of weighing the awful choice, she nodded to the
right. The young man saw and without hesitating walked to the right-hand door and opened it.
The groups then read their versions in turn, and share their feelings about 
5. This may lead to further discussion about why they wanted their particular end to the story
what kinds of stories they liked as children, or the fascination of ghost stories and fairy stories
Moreover, some students will probably have some stories they would like to tell or favorite
characters they want to describe.